Health System Implements Evidence-Based Templates For Care Planning
By Julia Ernst, contributing writer
The evidence-based templates will provide the staff of Mercy Health System with access to more than 300 care plan templates.
Mercy Health has implemented ProVation Care Plans for care planning and content management. The templates are for both nursing and medical diagnoses and include thousands of reference links to graded evidence, current best practices, quality measures, treatments, disease and drug information, signs and symptoms, and diagnostic tests.
The ProVation Care Plans feature automatic quarterly updates and are written with standard terminology from one system to ensure consistency across disciplines. The templates are coded with ICD-9, ICD-10, and Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine-Clinical Terms (SNOMED CT). ProVation Care Plans allows organizations to define and maintain their custom care plans library while adhering to industry-accepted nursing terminology for goals and interventions through its intelligent clinical content management system, according to a news release on the implementation.
ProVation Care Plans are powered by Lippincott Solutions, a series of integrated software applications for nurses. Lippincott Solutions is a product of Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, which is part of Wolters Kluwer Health. Wolters Kluwer Health is a global provider of information, business intelligence, and point-of-care solutions for the healthcare industry. The company serves more than 150 countries.
Mercy Health (formerly Catholic Health Partners) is a health organization that serves patients in Kentucky and Ohio. The non-profit health system includes acute-care hospitals, long-term care facilities, housing sites for the elderly, home health agencies, hospice programs, wellness centers, and other healthcare organizations. Mercy Health was formed in Cincinnati in 1986.
“Mercy Health has long been leveraging Wolters Kluwer Health solutions to provide our physicians and nurses with trusted decision support at the point of care,” said Stephen Beck, MD, CMIO of Mercy Health. “We are looking forward to the use of ProVation Care Plans to advance evidence-based practice at Mercy Health, providing nurses and the entire interdisciplinary team with point of care clinical decision support that positively impacts patient safety, care outcomes and nursing satisfaction.”
SOURCE: Herald Online